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Nucleosome breathing and remodeling constrain CRISPR-Cas9 function
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Isaac RS
; Jiang F
; Doudna JA
; Lim WA
; Narlikar GJ
; Almeida R
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The CRISPR-Cas9 bacterial surveillance system has become a versatile tool for
genome editing and gene regulation in eukaryotic cells, yet how CRISPR-Cas9
contends with the barriers presented by eukaryotic chromatin is poorly
understood. Here we investigate how the smallest unit of chromatin, a nucleosome,
constrains the activity of the CRISPR-Cas9 system. We find that nucleosomes
assembled on native DNA sequences are permissive to Cas9 action. However, the
accessibility of nucleosomal DNA to Cas9 is variable over several orders of
magnitude depending on dynamic properties of the DNA sequence and the distance of
the PAM site from the nucleosome dyad. We further find that chromatin remodeling
enzymes stimulate Cas9 activity on nucleosomal templates. Our findings imply that
the spontaneous breathing of nucleosomal DNA together with the action of
chromatin remodelers allow Cas9 to effectively act on chromatin in vivo.